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University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley

About the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley

The mission of the University of California Botanical Garden is to develop and maintain a diverse living collection of plants to support teaching and worldwide research in plant biology, further the conservation of plant diversity, and promote public understanding and appreciation of plants and the natural environment.

The Garden's plant collection of over 10,000 taxa features plants of documented wild origin from nearly every continent, with an emphasis on plants from Mediterranean climates (California, Mediterranean Basin, Australia, South Africa, and Chile). The arrangement of the outdoor collections is primarily geographic by continent of origin or by region including Asia, Australasia, California, Deserts of the Americas, Eastern North America, Mediterranean, Mexico/Central America, South America, and Southern Africa. The Garden holds one of the largest and most diverse collections in the United States.

California native plants (over 2,750 accesssions) occupy approximately one-third of the Garden's area and are grouped by plant communities. These include over a quarter of the state's native species (according to The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California) and 201 taxa on the California Native Plant Society's list of rare and endangered species.

Main Address:
University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley
200 Centennial Drive #5045 Berkeley California 94720-5045 United States of America